Girl denies taking photo to target man for attack

A girl took a photograph of an 80-year-old man in a park a week before she filmed part of an attack in which it was alleged he was hit with a shoe and fatally injured, a court has been told.

Jurors heard the girl, aged 12 at the time, denied that she kept the picture of Bhim Kohli on her phone so she could "target him" and denied that she pointed him out on the day of the fatal attack.

Mr Kohli died the day after he was assaulted in Franklin Park, yards from his home in Braunstone Town, Leicestershire, on 1 September last year.

The girl, now 13, is on trial at Leicester Crown Court accused of Mr Kohli's manslaughter - a charge she denies.

A 15-year-old boy is accused of punching and kicking Mr Kohli after he was filmed slapping him in the face with his slider shoe.

He denies murdering Mr Kohli and an alternative count of manslaughter.

Neither defendant can be named because of their ages.

Prosecutor Harpreet Sandhu KC continued his cross-examination of the girl on Tuesday.

The jury was told the photograph of Mr Kohli was taken at 18:24 GMT on 24 August in Franklin Park, where he was injured the following week.

Mr Sandhu said: "It shows Bhim Kohli has twigs in his hand or branches, quite a few of them. It looks as if he's using both his hands to hold them and he's walking. Who took that photograph":[]}